Honors and Awards Received in 2008-09

Matthew Andrews Matt Andrews was accepted to participate in the 2009 Advanced Oral History Summer Institute at the University of California - Berkeley.

Kerry Joy Ard was announced winner of the Google Earth KML Research Global Competition and also received the Justin W. Leonard Award from The University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and the Environment.

Ann Bell was awarded the Dorothy McGuigan Prize for best graduate student essay on women as well as a research grant from the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

Elizabeth Bringewatt was recently awarded the W. K. Kellogg Family Fellowship in Children and Families by the School of Social Work at the University of Michigan.

Natalie Cotton received the Above and Beyond the Call of Duty (ABCD) reward from the Organizations and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management (AOM), for outstanding reviewing of papers for the 2009 AOM Annual Meeting.

Meagan Elliot received the NSF Graduate Student Research Fellowship.

Melissa Forbes received the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship and the Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace.

Russell Funk was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Alexandra Gerber received a dissertation completion fellowship from the Kollegforscher-Gruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe" at the Freie Universitaat, Berlin.

Dan Hirschman received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Kristen Hopewell Received the NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, NSF China Summer Institute Fellowship Visiting Research Fellow, and Peking University Rackham Research Grant.

Sun-Jae Hwang Received the 2009-10 Korea Foundation Graduate Fellowship by Korea Foundation and UM Center for Korean Studies. The Aage B. Sørensen Travel Award by Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility.

Tiffany D. Joseph was inducted into the inaugural UM chapter of the national Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Student Honor Society and selected to be an alumni ambassador for the IIE Fulbright Program.

Emily Kazyak received a SAGE & Pine Forge Teaching Innovations & Professional Development Award, and co-authored papers accepted for publication in Gender & Society and Journal of Family Issues. She was also a finalist for the Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellowship.

Qing Lai co-presented a poster at the PAA (Population Association of America) 2009 Annual Meeting which won the "Best Poster Award."

Ya-Wen Lei Received the Rackham International Students Fellowship and got first prize in the 37th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy.

Zheng Mu received a CCS Endowment Award for Preparatory Fieldwork from Center for Chinese Studies for the 2009-2010 academic year. She also co-presented a poster at the PAA (Population Association of America) 2009 Annual Meeting which won the "Best Poster Award."

Stephanie Osbakken Received the Boyd/Williams Dissertation Grant from IRWG.

Meeta Pradhan Received the Barbour Scholarship 2008-2009 as well as the Marshall Weinberg Research Fellowship 2009.

Hiroe Saruyareceived a Mellon Summer Fellowship from the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan.

Jena Siegel received the Rosemary Sarri Award from the Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Social Science.

Jessi Streib recieved this year's Mark Chesler Award (with Avi Astor).

Jeannie Thrall Received the Rackham debt management award for next year.

Jessica Wiederspan received the Clara and Larry Davis award from the joint doctoral program in Social Work and Social Science.

Jessica Wyse received a Population Studies Center Small Grant and a Rackham Research Grant.

Jennifer Eckerman Yarger was awarded the Innovation in Social Research Fellowship from the Institute for Social Research.